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This is a pretty good article about it, with this being the relevant graph:

Like I say, it’s going to become a significant thing, and I’m sure for the tiny fraction of all the world’s data centers that are operated by Microsoft specifically it already is, but it isn’t yet, on a global scale.

Let me try a different way: I'm saying you're leaving the door open, just a little bit, for someone to come in with a red herring reframing of the question.

Saying the UN found photo and video evidence of rape is technically accurate but it leaves a little window open for someone to try to get into an irrelevant discussion about photos and videos and what people didn't find in the videos. I would just focus on, there is strong evidence of rape, more like you did in your more recent message.

Saying rape was likely committed by Hamas leaves a similar little window open, since the report actually specifically stayed away from the question of which men out of the invading force (not all of whom were Hamas) were doing the raping, since that's pretty hard to determine. To me it is safe to conclude that a lot of it was done by Hamas, but the report doesn't do that, because it is trying to be rigorous about definitively proving everything that it's saying.

That is my input. You're free to conclude it's not warranted of course. Again: I agree with you. Cheers.

Dude I am 100% on your side on all of that. If anything I was saying sounded like I was saying rape didn't happen, that wasn't the intent. Just factual nitpicks about details of what the report itself did and didn't conclude.

I don't at all disagree with your main conclusions, but some factual nitpicks:

The UN didn't claim there was photo or video of rape actually happening. The whole thing is sort of a red herring, an artful construction to ask a different question other than "was there rape?" in order that the answer can be no.

UN report on Sexual violence during the October 7th attack

UN report on war crimes in general during the conflict, of which sexual violence by both Hamas and the IDF forms a part

A lot of the UN's reports actually don't weigh in on the question of whether the rape that was committed on October 7th was done by Hamas fighters or by an associated body of Palestinians that accompanied them. In a lot of cases there was no way to tell what the affiliation of the man involved in any given instance was, although he was obviously part of the general body of the attack, and so they simply stuck to saying, rape happened.

Like I say, no real disagreement with your main point, just some nitpicks. Linkerbaan has for whatever reason picked the one pro Palestinian thing he could go to bat for that makes him look like the monster, and where the actual evidence makes the Palestinian side into the bad guys. It's weird. There is not a shortage of things to bring up that make the Israelis the bad guys.

I hadn’t fully been aware of the changeover, but yeah I saw season 7 and it was definitely more coherent and solid and less wandery and desperate than some of the middle seasons, absolutely there was an uptick in quality to me yes

I for real thought this was a programming post at first, about the supervillain software company, and thought oh shit oh fuck why do people have palantir packages installed what did I miss

For those not in the know, there was a select group of restaurant employees who used to be able to tell when some shit was going down geopolitically because all the takeout places near the White House would get this big flood of orders for the people in various US government buildings working late. It would often precede sudden big shit happenings (e.g. us invading places) that were otherwise unexpected.

Idk if they have fixed the information leakage or if it’s still that way but apparently it used to be very reliable and notable to the people working in the restaurants.

Part of the activist left is absolutely voting for Biden; anyone who’s been working for progress in this country and actively working and experiencing success and failure and the hard work that goes with it would I think easily able to see that letting Trump come to power would be such a severe and wide ranging setback to so many of the things they’ve been working for, and the action of just showing up one morning is so trivial in comparison to a lot of the other things they have to do for years to even move the needle by a tiny amount’s worth of difference, that it’s a no brainer.

I think there’s a significant grouping, also, that’s so horrified by his enabling of a genocide that they don’t plan to vote for him. But, their main focus right now is on putting pressure on the Democrats to stop their support for Israel (with apparently a certain small amount of success), and on direct action against the war, not really specifically anything focused on the general election except for a general feeling of disgust at the Democrats.

Depending on what you mean by “hard left,” you may or may not mean those groupings, and may instead mean some other people on the internet who are super vocal (and often seem weirdly fixated on criticizing Biden for a variety of reasons honest or dishonest, not just the war, and on the vital importance of people not voting for him, much more so than other left activist things that they seem not to be as interested in.)

They're not being silenced or anywhere close to it. The prosecutors asked the judge to order the defendant to stop talking to them about some aspects of the case, I guess because they don't want anything that might build any sympathy for the guy they're prosecuting, and the judge (apparently, from all appearances, since they wrote the story and seem to still be talking to the guy uninterrupted) said no.

And then the guy wrote a story like "hey it seems like every single action these prosecutors are taking is like they want to put him in prison, what the fuck is that, that's not balanced."

FWIW it's not a paywall; they just want your email address

Here's a good bit more in depth read about it, it is excellent

It has yet to pass the Senate, and Biden said he would veto it.

Of course, Biden is still swearing to everyone that he is still sending shipments except for the one that he paused because of Rafah, and that he plans to keep doing it. And, his administration conducted an investigation which somehow managed to conclude that they "may have" been committing war crimes but that it's not clear enough that we would have to stop shipping them weapons or anything which we would be legally obligated to do if they "conclusively" were doing anything criminal.

Fuckin assholes